Amusement apparatus.



No. 862,311. PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

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AMUSEMENT APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED N0'V.13.-1906.

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F. M. CORY. AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILE) NOV 13. 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK M. CORY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO WORLD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

AMUSEMENT APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed November 13,1906. Serial No. 343,209.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. CORY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Amusement Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an amusement apparatus of the roundabout type, and its object is to provide an improved construction for imparting a revolving and undulating motion to cars or baskets adapted to contain passengers.

A feature of the device is that it is provided with an inclined globe on which the earth may be represented, so that the trip will simulate a tour around the world.

By means of the apparatus to be described-the cars are given a compoundmotion in the nature of a revolution combined with an undulation, as will more fully appear hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings. Figure 1 is a sectional view of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan view.

Referring specifically to thedrawings, 1 indicates a 7 large globe which may be painted'or otherwise constructed to represent the earth. This is mounted at the upper end of a shaft 2 which is supported in inclined position by means of a frame consisting of a circular series of inclined braces 3 set upon a base 19. These braces or timbers incline upon each other to form a conical support, and they are connected at the top to a circular track 4 formed of angular metal the-flanges of which are bolted to the upper ends of the braces. The track 4 has a series of holes 5 extending around the same to receive studs or spurs 7 on a wheel 6. which is fixed to the shaft and which rolls around the ring or track 4.

The globe is preferably a skeleton structure made of light metal covered with canvas and provided with a central bolt 8 forming a continuation of the shaft, and also with a series of radial arms 9 which project some distance beyond the surface of the globe and from the outer ends of which the cars 10 are suspended as by ropes 20. The arms 9 are braced within the globe by braces 21 extending between said arms and the shaft; also by ropes or rods 22 connected between the top of the bolt 8 and the outer ends of said arms.

Supported Within the conical structure formed by the inclined braces 3 is an internal or ring rack 13, formed in sections and bolted 'to the braces, and meshing with this rack is a gear 12 on the shaft 2. The lower end of said shaft is stepped-into a bearing 14 on top of a large horizontal bevel gear llwhich is mounted upon apivot piece 16 at the center, and which is supported at its edge by rollers 15 thereunder; The gear 11 meshes with a driving pinion 17 carried on a shaft 18 which may be driven by an electric or other suitable motor.

When the bevel gear 11 is turned it carries with it the lower end of the shaft 2, thereby causing said shaft to revolve in a conical path, and at the same time this movement of the shaft causes the gear 12 to engage the rack 13 producing a rotation of the shaft on its own axis. The revolution of the shaftcauses an undulation of the cars carried thereby, and the rotation of the shaft causes thetravel or revolution of the cars around the same, for the purpose intended. Owing to the inclined position of the shaft the cars on one side are brought quite close to the ground, while the cars on the other sideare elevated to a considerable height.

I claim:

1. The combination of a ring, an inclined shaft extending through the ring and adapted to roll around the same means to rotate the shaft as it rolls around said ring, a rotatable support for the lower end of the shaft, on which said end, is eccentrically mounted under the ring, arms projecting from the shaft above the ring, and cars carried at the outer ends of said arms.

2. The combination of a ring, a shaft extending at an inclination through the ring and adapted to roll around the same, a driven wheel located under the ring and concentric therewith and having an eccentric support and bearing for the lower end of the shaft, a ring rack extend ing around the shaft, a gear wheel on the shaft and in mesh with the rack, and a support for passengers, carried by the shaft.

3. The combination of a ring, a shaft extending at an inclination through the ring and adapted to roll around the same, the ring and shaft having a pinwheel gear therebetween, means to-revolve the shaft around an axis passing through the ring, and a support for passengers, carried by the shaft.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK M. CORY.

Witnesses:

NELLIE FELTSKOG, H. G. BATCHELOR. 

